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Virtual Reality and Robotics in Neurosurgery: Promise and Challenges
December 20, 2012 — Robotic technologies have the potential to help neurosurgeons perform precise, technically demanding operations, together with virtual reality environments to help them navigate through the brain, ... > full story -
Dragonflies Have Human-Like 'Selective Attention'
December 20, 2012 — In a discovery that may prove important for cognitive science, our understanding of nature and applications for robot vision, researchers have found evidence that the dragonfly is capable of ... > full story -
Motivation, Study Habits -- Not IQ -- Determine Growth in Math Achievement
December 20, 2012 — It's not how smart students are but how motivated they are and how they study that determines their growth in math achievement. That's the main finding of a study that looks at six annual waves of ... > full story -
Robotic-Assisted Radical Bladder Surgery Potentially Benefits Bladder Cancer Patients
December 19, 2012 — About 30 percent of the more than 70,000 bladder cancer cases expected in 2012 are muscle invasive. In such cases, radical cystectomy is the preferred treatment. In a pilot trial, a team of ... > full story -
Artificial Intelligence Helps Sort Used Batteries
December 19, 2012 — A new type of machine sorts used batteries by means of artificial intelligence (AI). One machine is now being used in the UK, sorting one-third of the country’s recycled ... > full story -
Major Breakthrough in High-Precision Indoor Positioning
December 17, 2012 — Cell phones are getting ever smarter today, savvy enough to tell you where to go and what to buy in shopping centers or department stores. Although still in nascent stages, indoor positioning and ... > full story -
Noise Power on Adhesion: New Model May Help Robotic Fingers, Made of a Soft Surface, Manipulate Small Objects
December 17, 2012 — A new model could ultimately help robotic fingers, made of a soft surface, manipulate small objects. Imagine a solid ball rolling down a slightly inclined ramp. Scientists have studied the effect of ... > full story -
Woman With Quadriplegia Feeds Herself Chocolate Using Mind-Controlled Robot Arm
December 17, 2012 — Reaching out to "high five" someone, grasping and moving objects of different shapes and sizes, feeding herself dark chocolate. For Jan Scheuermann and a team of researchers, accomplishing these ... > full story -
Developing Power Sources for Flexible, Stretchable Electronics
December 14, 2012 — Electronic devices become smaller, lighter, faster and more powerful with each passing year. Currently, however, electronics such as cell phones, tablets, laptops, etc., are rigid. But what if they ... > full story -
'Liquid That Thinks:' Swarm of Ping-Pong-Ball-Sized Robots Created
December 14, 2012 — If one robot can accomplish a singular task, think how much more could be accomplished if you had hundreds of them. A research team has developed a basic robotic building block, which they hope to ... > full story
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